Speakers

Randy Hermann, P.Eng, University of Manitoba

Opening Keynote: Transforming Learners to Transform our World
9:00am June 20th 2022

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Randy Herrmann, P.Eng., Randy is the Director of the Engineering Access Program (ENGAP) at the University of Manitoba.ENGAP is a support program designed to assist First Nation, Métis and Inuit students seeking an engineering degree. He graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geological Engineering. For ten years he worked as a geotechnical engineer and a project manager before taking on his current role.

Over the years Randy’s work with Canadian Indigenous communities and within the engineering field has shown him the lack of engineers of First Nation, Metis, and Inuit ancestry and the obstacles faced by these students to obtain a degree.  His desire to help change these factors and make it easier for Indigenous students to pursue an engineering degree led him to become Director of ENGAP, a position he has held since 1998.

He is a Fellow of Engineers Canada, and a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is also a member of Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba and the Manitoba Metis community.

Eve Langelier, Université de Sherbrooke

Closing Keynote: Transforming the learners to transform our world: Why is EDI so important?
12:00pm June 22th 2022

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Eve Langelier, Eng, Ph.D., MSc, Eve Langelier is a full professor in the mechanical engineering department at the Université de Sherbrooke. She also holds the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering in Quebec. She specializes in the biomechanics and mechanobiology of soft tissues. She is particularly interested in the prevention and healing of tendon injuries and pressure sores. Eve Langelier is actively involved in the recruitment, retention and professional development of women in science and engineering. She is the initiator of the activity Girls and science, an electrifying duo! in Eastern Township, was a member of the regional organizing committee for the November 2017 Gender Summit 11 in Montreal and participated in the UNESCO SAGA project. Today, she works to make technology education more accessible, effective and stimulating and sits on various committees about EDI (equity, diversity and inclusion) in higher education and research and develops tools for this topic.